3) Software offshoring: China Vs India.

Pertaining to labor and cost factors, India and China have always been head to head. However, a chairman from an Indian software outsourcing company recently said that in about three years, China may catch up with India and become the world leader in software outsourcing services.

Before this announcement, other industry experts have also estimated this to occur in five to ten years. Is it true that China is really engaged in such a fast development pace?

In this time, it could end up being these two countries, head to head, vying for jobs in the most dynamic industry all over the world. One should consider the measure of unpredictability and add it to the models of labor in the emerging markets. This dynamic constitutes as a part of the beauty of a worldwide learning environment. The internet and other open source technologies online, ensures an optimal availability of tools for software workers all around the world.

Let's have a look at the things that make China 's presence in the world's IT sector.

Advantages

• Manufacturing Strength
In fact, the Chinese computer parts manufacturing industry has a special privilege. It is dependent on China and other Asian countries as suppliers of semiconductors and software developers, and is rushing to create alternative methodologies.

• Labor Strength
A remarkable workforce includes priority on training and skills development as well as, human resource protection and incentive-giving. China 's massive labor force focuses on these specifics.

Current Disadvantages

• Low English level
It is found that communication in English has been a major barrier between top world entrepreneurs who work with Chinese, in offshore software development . However, some Indian IT experts report that China is making an effort to bridge the gap in their English so to better comply with western countries.

• Project Management
It is well-known that China has not been getting as much media exposure rate in the IT offshore sector as India . While the projects are certainly outsourced to China , people have little knowledge of how successful they are. Favorable reviews of Chinese service providers are rare to come across.